Each birth has its own tree in this village in Val-d'Oise

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One month before Christmas, it was a gift from the village of Saint-Gervais (Val-d'Oise) to around twenty children.

Around ten families went to the heights of the town on Sunday November 24, 2024 to carry out the ecological operation. A birth, a tree intended to allow parents of children born during the year to sponsor the planting of a tree.

“For our son Louis, 4 years old, it is an apple tree,” explains Julie, mother in a relationship with Hugo and parent of two children. The home has been installed in the town since 2011.

The initiative took place in the Grand Parc, a seven-hectare space, municipal property for around twenty years and which is the subject of a development study.

The site has a football pitch and two tennis courts and the town hall plans to complete it with a fitness trail and an orchard of 60 trees.

Fifteen of them have just been symbolically baptized in the name of a village child.

“We have had around thirty births since 2020”

Peach trees, apricot trees, apple trees, cherry trees and plum trees are the fruit varieties planted under the watchful eye of Atelier de l'Ours in Vernon (Eure), a firm specializing in landscaping.

The process is accompanied by the French Vexin Regional Natural Park.

“We advise the municipality in its planning study. A program subsidized by the Park which materializes in this first phase of planting,” explains Magalie Laffond, consulting landscaper at the Pnr.

The town hall also asked the Île-de-France Region for assistance under the Green Plan for plantations and other natural developments.

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